Later Roman Empire Archive
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‘Like a Certain Tornado of Peoples’: Warfare of the European Huns in the Light of Graeco-Latin Literary Tradition
Posted on May 17, 2013 | No CommentsThe paper deals with the art of warfare of the Huns, who invaded Southeast Europe in the last third of the 4th century A.D. and dominated there through the third quarter of the 5th century -
Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIt did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial's original poems might have real value. -
A Healing Touch for Empire: Vespasian’s Wonders in Domitianic Rome
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsThe development of the story of Vespasian -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
Ammianus and some Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c. A.D. 353-364
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsIt is my intention here to draw together such information as Ammianus provides about the scholae in order to demonstrate how, in a number of cases in particular, it is possible to reconstruct an almost complete list of their commanders for the period c. 353-364. -
Roman Imperialism Checked at Teutoburger Wald in AD 9
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsAugustus -
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus -
Constantius and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsMore significant, perhaps, is the fact that he was elevated to the position of Augustus by Honorius after he had temporarily pacified the region of Gaul. A major part o f Constantius's program ofpacificaiion had been moving the powerful Visigoths into the region. -
Speculations of the Death of Roman Theatre
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No CommentsThese mimes were centered around themes of murder and adultery: the amount of indecency was incredible. In a warped sense of Realism, emperors could command a real sex act to take place on stage. -
Some Observations on Nero and the City of Rome
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsMost Neronian interventions concerning the layout of the city have been made after the Great Fire of A.D. 64. Two of the few previous important interventions were the new arrangement of the via Recta and the construction of the pons Neronianus, giving access to the area with the new baths Nero built near those of Marcus Agrippa.
